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jan27299
Oct 18th, 2008, 09:24 PM
I bought the 16gb flash drive from BB that is on sale for $39.99 but when i try to copy a 4.35gb file to it windows is telling me it is full.

I have already tried formatting it again and i can transfer 800mb files to it with no issues.

Has anyone heard of this?

willy
Oct 18th, 2008, 09:39 PM
Coz your USB drive is in FAT32 format right now .... Format it in NTFS and you're gold. ...

GroceryBagHead
Oct 18th, 2008, 09:41 PM
Alternatively you can use WinRar to split the file

ngp
Oct 18th, 2008, 09:57 PM
I bought the 16gb flash drive from BB that is on sale for $39.99 but when i try to copy a 4.35gb file to it windows is telling me it is full.

I have already tried formatting it again and i can transfer 800mb files to it with no issues.

Has anyone heard of this?

It's probably formatted as FAT32 which has a file size limit of 4gigs.